TESTING
Understand Your Running. Train With Better Information.
Testing at Runners Prep gives you objective information about your physical capacity, physiology and running performance.
Whether you want to identify areas to improve, establish training zones, track progress or better understand what is limiting your performance, our testing helps turn data into practical decisions for your training.
Choose from the following areas of testing:
Performance Testing
Assess your strength, physical capacity and movement using our VALD testing technology to identify strengths, areas for development and track progress over time.
Physiology Testing
Understand your fitness, thresholds and running efficiency through lactate, VO₂ and running economy testing to better inform your training and performance.
Technique Testing
Take a closer look at how you run using wearable technology and movement analysis to assess your running mechanics, identify individual strategies and uncover opportunities to improve efficiency and performance.
What You’ll Get
Your results are interpreted in the context of you as a runner, rather than simply giving you a collection of numbers.
We’ll explain what we found, where your current strengths and opportunities lie, and how the results can help guide your training.
Performance Testing can be used as a standalone assessment or as the starting point for joining our Squad program.
The assessment is $120 as a standalone service, or the assessment fee is waived if you join a Runners Prep Squad Membership.
Performance Testing
Understand Your Physical Capacity
Our Performance Testing looks at the physical qualities that underpin running performance.
Using a combination of strength, force and movement assessments, we can identify your current strengths, highlight areas for development and establish objective benchmarks to track over time.
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VALD ForceDecks:
Jump performance, force production and lower-limb asymmetries -
VALD ForceFrame:
Isolated strength testing across key muscle groups -
VALD DynaMo:
Targeted strength and capacity assessment - Lower-limb strength testing
- Calf, quadriceps, hamstring and hip capacity
- Running-specific movement strategies
- Individual strength profiling
Physiology Testing
Understand What’s Happening Under the Hood
Physiology Testing helps us understand how your body responds as running intensity increases.
From identifying training zones and thresholds to understanding your running economy, testing can provide valuable information to help guide training and race preparation.
Our physiology testing is suitable for runners looking to take a more detailed and individualised approach to their performance.
Lactate Testing
VO₂ Testing
Running Economy Testing
Super Shoe Testing
Testing options are available from $280, with pricing varying depending on the assessment and testing package selected.
Technique Testing
Every runner moves differently.
Our Running Technique Analysis takes a detailed look at your individual running mechanics to better understand how you move throughout the gait cycle.
Rather than trying to make every runner look the same, we look at the strategies you use while running and whether there are opportunities to improve your movement, efficiency or performance.
- Individualised strength programming
- Supervised Squad sessions
- Regular program updates
- Ongoing coach support
- Movement and exercise guidance
- Access to the RP running community
Turning Analysis Into Action
You’ll leave with a better understanding of your running technique and, most importantly, what the information means for your training.
Where appropriate, we’ll provide practical recommendations that may include running drills, strength exercises, training considerations or areas to monitor over time.
Running Technique Analysis is available from $320, with options depending on the level of analysis required.
